Documentary Films - Competition 2013 / Le jour a vaincu la nuit / France 2013
Award-winning French director Jean-Gabriel Périot, a specialist in highly original short documentaries, puts questions to eight unwilling inhabitants of an Orléans prison who appear in front of the camera to speak of their dreams and nightmares, allowing us to delve deep into minds altered by a life behind bars.
Award-winning French director Jean-Gabriel Périot, a specialist in highly original short documentaries, puts questions to eight unwilling inmates of an Orléans prison. They appear on camera in precisely placed frontal shots and confide their wildest dreams and most oppressive nightmares, allowing us to delve deep into minds altered by a life behind bars. The well-planned shots have their own rhythm and the music faithfully corresponds to the mood of the individual dreams, whose seeming absurdity aptly reflects the grueling mundanity of prison life.
28 min / Color, DCP
Director Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Dir. of Photography Denis Gravouil
/ Music Xavier Thibault, Gérald Kurdian
/ Editor Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Producer Cécile Lestrade
/ Production Alter Ego production
/ Contact Alter Ego Production
Jean-Gabriel Périot (b. 1974, Tours, France) is the creator behind numerous short films in which he developed his own unique editing style working with archive materials. His films combine documentary techniques with animation and experimental forms. Films such as Dies Irae (2005), Even If She Had Been a Criminal… (2006), and Nijuman no borei (2007) appeared at foreign festivals. Last year, Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened competed at KVIFF.
Alter Ego Production
48, rue de Bourgogne, 450 00, Orleans
France
Phone: +33 238 807 944
E-mail: [email protected]
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Film Director
Xavier Thibault
Film Crew
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